Twitter finally starts rolling out the edit button, but US users will have to wait Twitter Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand will get the feature first. K. Holt @krisholt Dado Ruvic / reuters After years of users begging Twitter for an edit button, they’re finally getting their wish. The company is … Continue reading Twitter finally starts rolling out the edit button, but US users will have to wait
Amazon Battles Alexa Users Over Ad-Targeting Claims by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, October 10, 2022 Amazon is pressing a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that the company wrongly uses voice recordings captured by Alexa to target ads. In papers filed Friday, Amazon argues that the allegations in the complaint, even if proven true, would … Continue reading Amazon Battles Alexa Users Over Ad-Targeting Claims
Microsoft found a severe one-click exploit in TikTok’s Android app Thankfully, TikTok patched the vulnerability. I. Bonifacic @igorbonifacic NurPhoto via Getty Images A serious vulnerability found by Microsoft in the TikTok Android app could have allowed hackers to hijack millions of accounts. On Wednesday, the company’s 365 Defender Research Team detailed a one-click exploit … Continue reading TikTok denies security breach after hackers claim to have records of more than a billion users
Google Battles Assistant Users Over Accidental Voice Recordings by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, August 23, 2022 Google is urging a judge to rule in its favor in a privacy lawsuit brought by users who claim Assistant-enabled devices recorded conversations without consent, and disclosed portions to outside contractors. In papers filed Monday with U.S. District Court Judge … Continue reading Google Battles Assistant Users Over Accidental Voice Recordings
YouTube Launches Podcast Page For U.S. Users by Colin Kirkland , August 22, 2022 Despite the lack of any formal announcement, YouTube has launched its own podcast page, according to 9to5Google. U.S. consumers are now able to see popular podcast channels, episodes, playlists, categories and recommended shows alongside the site’s existing Explorer page. Podcasting may … Continue reading YouTube Launches Podcast Page For U.S. Users
By Mark Sullivan June 17, 2022 Facebook is pivoting. Again. The Verge‘s Alex Heath reports that top brass at the social giant, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ordered workers to rejigger the core piece of the Facebook app, the Feed, to look and act more like TikTok’s “For You” page. Not surprisingly, TikTok … Continue reading Facebook’s ‘TikTok pivot’ is unlikely to win back young users
Brave Search Debuts Goggles, Allows Users To Choose Search Rankings by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, June 22, 2022 Brave Search, which launched one year ago, will exit the beta phase with 2.5 billion queries in the past 365 days. The company touts its independence, saying the search engine is a privacy-focused, unbiased alternative to … Continue reading Brave Search Debuts Goggles, Allows Users To Choose Search Rankings
TikTok adds new screen time controls to remind users to take breaks TikTok is adding a new screen time dashboard and “well-being guide” for teen users. K. Bell @karissabe June 9th, 2022 TikTok TikTok is rolling out more screen time controls to help users manage how much time they are spending in the app. With … Continue reading TikTok adds new screen time controls to remind users to take breaks
My Ad Center will let users block any ad and get info on why they were chosen to see it. Greg Finn on May 12, 2022 Consumers on Google will soon get more control over the advertising they see. This via the new My Ad Center feature which the search-engine giant unveiled its annual I/O … Continue reading Google giving users greater control over what ads they see
By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic April 28, 2022 Elon Musk is one of the most widely spoken about people in the world, the richest person in the world ($266 billion), and the man behind Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and now Twitter (as reported in Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post). His seemingly spontaneous and unfiltered tweets (which included calling … Continue reading This is Elon Musk’s opportunity to make Twitter users more open minded
